standalone s54 engine and DSC retrofitting into a e30

[89AlpineM3]

I should do this since I have an entire donor car ...lol ... I'm good just with the swap but it gives me something to think about with all the other left over parts

[nando]

he's talking about doing this to an ix, not a RWD E30. the ix has different ABS anyway.

[Wh33lhop]

You want to fit stability control onto an e30?

Do you even realize what that entails?

Actually, I'm not sure it's SO insurmountable. I was talking to an E46 guy last week (cyberkaa, he knows his shit) and basically if you can put the E46 ABS pump in the E30 (pretty simple) the DSC is a standalone unit excepting the MSS54, wheel speed sensors which will need to be converted to E46/Hall effect, the "DSC sensor" (combined yaw and lateral acc sensor) and the LWS (steering angle sensor). The wheel speed sensors and LWS will be the main headaches here. If you figure them out and get everything in the car, hook it up and that's your retrofit. Worth it? I don't know. Would be interesting though.

With all the of the flak that it catches, E46 DSC is actually pretty cool. It battles understeer and helps maintain yaw by pulsing the outside brakes while braking mid-corner. Don't quote me on this but IIRC either the M3 or the CSL unit is also less intrusive performance-wise. Moreover, E30 ABS sucks. E46 ABS does not. So it's not entirely without merit.

Edit: nando has a point that it may not be as effective on an E30. But I think it would still do its job.

For a bit of technical info: http://www.shipkiller.com/Dynamic_St...trol_MK60.html

[nando]

Yaw sensor, steering angle sensor, entire abs system diff, dsc, mss54 & probably 100lbs of wires.

It would be best if you had an entire m3, so you could remove all the E46 wiring and completely rewire the e30.

But, even transplanted, it's tuned for a bigger, heavier car. There is no gaurantee it would even work.

[AndrewBird]

You want to fit stability control onto an e30?

Do you even realize what that entails?

[e30ixBoost]

simple straight forward question .. what would be required in order to achieve retrofitting E46 M DSC along a standalone S54 engine swapped within an E30.

Which or what ECU and tune(s) would be best suited ?

what parts would one have to amass ?